You can try with booting DOS in DOSBox and run it from there. See imgmount.

accessing the network drive will be tricky then I think.

But everything works great when using the un-patched version. I reconfigured Paradox so that the NET file was located on the C drive and I get the same error message except that it's pointing to the C drive instead of the H drive.

An imgmount doesn't sound like it would solve the problem, especially since it works with one version and not the other. But I'll look for a dos image file that i can download and give it a try and let you know.

else try the cvs build of dosbox to see if it has to do with the patching or with the fact that dosbox became incompatible with it.
(the patched builds aren't always based off 0.72)
http://builds.tharos-online.de/

They had to access the network drive somehow on a real computer, the NE2000 should be useful for that (they could just use some other VM then though).

You can also try the older version of my build (downloadable form my homepage), it doesn't have the CVS change that broke Winword/Excel (share issue, it sounds like it could cause that bug too).

Qbix, Paradox for DOS works great with all the non-patched versions of DOSBox. But when I try to use any of the patched version, thats when Paradox stops working.

h-a-l-9000, with both the non-patched & patched version, you can access the network drives once you mount them
network map k: = \\titan\pdox
dosbox mount k = k:\

Once the drives are mounted I can create & delete files and folders on the mounted (network) drives with no problem. I can run both versions of dosbox side by side and the original version will open up paradox and the patched version will fail. I did install the ne2000 but that made no difference.

Isn't there a version with just printing? I think with all the extra network & graphic patches, something might be causing a problem.

So does a recent build from http://builds.tharos-online.de/ work?

Hey h-a-l-9000,

No, it didn't work. I get the same error message "PDOX ERROR Could Not login on network" when I downloaded several different ones from that site. The ones that I downloaded were:

current_dosbox
dosbox_01.01.2009
dosbox_01.11.2008
dosbox_17.11.2008
dosbox_23.11.2008
dosbox_24.12.2008

Then try this one: http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/dosbox_files/ … bined_3_exe.zip

It's even older and doesn't have the share problem I mentioned.

It's saying it can't find sdl_net.dll file. Should I download the dll's from your site or copy them from the ones that were with the other dosboxes?

Yes. Or copy it to the MB4.1 folder (rename it maybe)

YES! YES! YES!!!!!!! It worked, no errors in opening up paradox. I also notice in the status window that it has the option for parallel port, YES!

I will test the printing out first thing in the morning, YES! YES! YES! 😁

Right now I'm just using the standard conf file, can I use the one thats from the MB4.1?

I will let you know the results tomorrow!

I don't think these two .conf versions are compatible. But they are not so different that moving the changes from one to another would be particularly hard.

be aware that you don't have real networking. So using multiple instances of dosbox on the same time on the same database will probably not work.

It worked perfectly, I can now access Paradox and print reports.

But regarding the printing, the font is large and cuts off the page. Is there a way to control the size of the font or the font type?

Thanks for all the help.

So this is a really old post and i'm not sure anyone will answer. The links posted here are long dead and I didn't really follow the directions....

We have a need for Dosbox running Paradox with Printer (LPT1) support and have been running into the same error with Paradox that strikes after version 0.65 mentioned by the OP "Can't start Paradox: unable to record lock/unlock H:POXUSRS.NET. You might have insufficient access rights to the directory H:\ "

Since every edition of Dosbox that supports emulated printing support for LPT1 is based on a version later than 0.65 we cannot use Paradox on it. I'm hoping someone can guide me on how to get this working as this is something critical a new customer of mine needs for at least the next year or two.

Just for fun, try if running fakeshare before running paradox. You can find that in my Windows 3.x guide in my signature.

Have you tried vDos (www.vdos.info)? It's far more suited to databases than DOSBox.